Re: The future of mipsel port

Paul Wise <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:09:40 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 13:54 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> I am late to the party but as i mentioned a couple times on debian-mips
> already i'd like to keep mipsel as a debian-port - and i'd like to
> revert away from mips32r2 back to mips2/mips3 - That change (with
> stretch) basically dropped all of the supported platforms formerly
> supported without a good reason - mips32r2 cpus would have been 
> able to run mips2 code. The now supported platforms are
> basically non existent or available for the normal user.

That sounds like a new port would be needed, some docs:

https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New

> So with that change we basically killed 90% of the Debian/mipsel 
> users/community e.g. Siemens RM series, Cobalt Cube/RAQ, Decstation R4k
> and the like which are now all stuck with pre-Stretch Debian Releases.

The baseline bump of the mips port similarly lost MIPSr1 based routers,
some of which could run Debian in a chroot.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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